Canadian punk-metal band Protest The Hero play amped-up, technically precocious, complex rock & roll on their debut full-length release, the concept album KEZIA. "No Stars Over Bethlehem" is a concentrated dose of mile-a-minute precision musicianship, while "Heretics and Killers" is propelled by searing guitar and drums, and the intricate time changes and turn-on-a-dime arrangements of "She Who Mars the Skin of Gods" suggest that the band, who were barely college age on KEZIA'S 2006 release, have a bright future in metal-jazz fusion.